Many new factors have recently entered into the situation. England, a Protestant nation, is the trusted friend of Italy. American relief work and statesmanship have made Protestant America a strong missionary force. Two hundred thousand semi-Americanized, semi-Protestantized Italians who have returned from the United States to fight for their native land are exerting an influence among their own people. A million copies of the Scriptures have also been distributed in the trenches and American Christians have organized great, practical religious centers in European camps and trenches.

Moslem lands perhaps more than any other missionary countries, have felt the influence of the great world-conflict. Important changes have taken place in Persia, Arabia and the Kingdom of Mecca. The whole Moslem world is in a political and social ferment. The British armies have occupied Jerusalem, thus re-establishing Christian rule in the Holy City after a lapse of seven hundred and thirty years. The students of the history of Islam are generally agreed, that the war will produce a still greater disintegration of Moslem power and prestige. Men like Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer, Dr. James L. Barton and Dr. Charles W. Watson predict that "after the war countless new doors will be opened to Christian missionaries in Moslem lands; that many obstacles to the open confession of Christ will be removed, and that western literature and education will meet with a still more eager reception from Moslem youths."

In India great religious mass-movements have been advancing over the country. In many regions, whole villages have renounced Hinduism and asked for Christian instruction. China also presents a similarly encouraging outlook. The Philippines have made wonderful progress along missionary lines. There are encouraging signs in Mexico and open doors in South America. There is a great desire among Mexicans to hear the evangelical message, while in South America we note with pleasure the changing attitude of this Latin country toward North America. New opportunities are presenting themselves. Africa still remains the "Dark Continent" sending out the Macedonian call to a Christian world to send the gospel message. Thus in all lands we note with joy the advance of the missionary cause.

The revolution in Russia has resulted in throwing open to the gospel the largest country, with its largest population of white people in the world. There are 182,000,000 people in Russia, and yet there are not as many evangelical workers there as in the city of Chicago alone. Many are eagerly waiting for the gospel. When recently one of the leaders of the "Dom Evangelia" Mission in Petrograd, immediately after returning from Siberia, went with his choir and workers to the large square directly in front of the Winter Palace, and conducted for the first time in the existence of that city an open air gospel service, large numbers of men and women assembled. After the message was delivered the people turned to the preacher and said: "Where have you been so long? and why did you not tell us this before!" "I was in Siberia," was the reply.

Never since the beginning of Christianity has such an immense population of our own white people become accessible to missionary enterprise. Our evangelization plan must embrace not only the hundred million native Russians, but also the seven million Jews, the twenty million Poles, the thirty million Ukrainias, millions of Mohammedans (Tartars, Kurds, Kirghiz, etc.) Armenians, Roumanians and Greeks, and besides these the Bulgarians, Servians, Croa-tians, Montenegrins and other related Slavonic peoples.

tunity of the centuries may be turned into the most abysmal failure.

The greatest immediate need is the printing and circulating of at least a million copies of the Russian Bible, three million copies of the New Testament and a large supply of the very best Russian evangelical literature. Then several hundred evangelists, colporteurs and Christian workers must be trained and equipped for service in Russia. Already one hundred Russians in America have offered themselves for soul-saving service in their native land and are now in training, and there are also hundreds of converted and educated men in Russia who have suffered for their faith and who now need to be rallied and encouraged.

Mrs. W. H. Kindell of College Park, attended the W. M. A. Branch meeting of the Auglaize conference at Collett, Indiana, last week.

Rev. Oscar Allebaugh, presiding elder of the St. Joseph conference conducted quarterly meeting at College Park over last Saturday and Sunday.

Rev. J. F. Combs, presiding elder of the Virginia conference, visited the College and Publishing Establishment one day last week. He is attending a number of the W. M, A. Branch meeting, addressing them in the interest of the missionary work in the Virginia Mission field.